[Haskell-beginners] Reading binary data into numeric types

[Brandon Allbery]

On Sat, Jun 20, 2015 at 9:29 PM, Barry DeZonia <bdezonia at gmail.com> wrote:

> I need to write some code that will read binary data from a file into
> various types defined in Data.Int, Data.Word, and the floating types. I am
> looking to make functions with signatures like Handle->IO Word16 and
> Handle->IO Int32 and Handle->IO Float and others similarly defined. One
> complication I am running into is that the data is stored in big endian
> byte
>

Hopefully you don't have some requirement to reinvent this wheel; the
binary package already provides it, including support for endianness.

http://hackage.haskell.org/package/binary

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